OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[Walter Bright]

On 12/12/2012 12:27 AM, Han wrote:
> You KNOW that D has not been "overlooked".

No, I don't know that. I just returned from a conference where few knew anything 
at all about D, and were quite impressed by what I had to show.

 > Do you really think that D will ever have popularity to the level of The
Beatles?

In the pantheon of programming languages, yes I do. D is in the design space 
where no other language is even close.